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THE CHECK COLLECTOR

April - June 2016 The Journal of Number 118

THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CHECK COLLECTORS, INC.

Number 118

THE CHECK COLLECTOR

April - June 2016

Editor: Robert D. Hohertz

PO Box 808

Northfield, MN 55057-0808
rdh@northfieldmail.com

Advertising Manager: All advertising should be channeled
through the Treasurer, Dick Naven. Dick's address is on the
following page.

The Check Collector (ISSN 1066-3061) is published
quarterly by the American Society of Check Collectors, 473
East Elm, Sycamore, IL 60178-1934. Subscription only by
membership, dues $15 per year in the US ($20 per year in
Canada and Mexico, $25 elsewhere). Periodicals postage
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POSTMASTER: send address changes to '.The Check
Collector , 473 East Elm, Sycamore, IL 60178-1934. All
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To our members:

Write something for The Check Collector ! We need articles
about checks, check-related subjects, and fiscal documents.

We retype all material that does not respond to OCR.
Illustrations require an original, or a good, clear, color copy,
or a 300 dpi scan. A clear black and white copy is acceptable,
but we greatly prefer color. Original checks sent in are copied
and returned carefully. Any questions, ask the Editor!

To our advertisers:

Deadline for advertising copy to run in the July - September
issue of The Check Collector is August 15.

The Check Collector is an effective means of reaching our
membership of collectors and dealers of checks and related
financial documents. It contains feature articles about checks
and check collecting and news about the hobby.

Advertising orders must be paid in advance and shall be
restricted to checks and related fiscal documents, publications,
accessories, and supplies. The ASCC accepts advertising in
good faith, reserving the right to edit copy. Copy for ads
must be camera-ready or the Editor will set it as best he can.

ASCC assumes no financial responsibility for typographical
errors in advertising. However, it will reprint that portion
of an advertisement in which a typographical error appeared
upon prompt notification of such error.

All advertisements and payments should be submitted
to the Treasurer.

Contents

Tightwad Bank - Rouze
Patent Medicine Company - Casper
Finger of Fate- Woodworth
Favorite Check - Winners
Territorial Paper 13 - Adams
X5 Inventory - Hohertz
Pennsylvania Banks 33 - Robin
Announcements - Ivester
Patent Medicine Company - Hohertz
Secretary’s Report - Hensley
Member Exchange

VISIT OUR WEBSITE
www.ascheckcollectors.org

On our cover we have two Chicago drafts which
have a remote connection to two articles in this
issue. Les Winner's Favorite Check article features
a check from Chicago, and all of the Pullman
parlor car tickets in my X5 inventory are from
there. Besides, they are rather showy.

Can anyone help? I received a change of address
form (which shoud have gone to the Secretary)
from someone in Iowa, but it was not filled out, not
even the name of the sender. Since I have no old
address nor a new one to go by, I have no way to
let the member know that they will not be getting
any more issues unless the post office returns their
copy of this issue with an address correction.

I hope you are enjoying color illustrations. And
I hope you will find it worthwhile to continue in
color. Let us know!

Advertising rates are as follows:

One quarter page $25.00/issue

Business card size $ 15.00/issue

$10 discount for four issues paid at once,

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THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CHECK COLLECTORS, INC.

A non-profit organization organized under Section 501-(c)-(3)

President:

Hermann Ivester

Departments:

5 Leslie Circle

Attorney:

Website: http ://ascheckcollectors. org

Little Rock, AR 72205-2529

Hermann Ivester

ivesters@swbell.net

5 Leslie Circle

Dues:

Little rock, AR 72205-2529

US: $15 per year

Vice-President:

Canada, Mexico: $20 per year

Donald Woodworth

Check Pool:

Elsewhere: $25 per year

1104 Timber Run

no current incumbent

US First Class Mail: $20 per year

O’Fallon, IL 62269-3127

Internet Only: $13 per year

don.woodworth@att.net

Editor, The Check Collector.

Bob Hohertz - see previous page

Security Printers Guide:

Secretary:

$5 in looseleaf form - order from

Lyman Hensley

Librarian:

William G. Kanowsky, address in

473 East Elm

Charles V. Kemp

middle column.

Sycamore, IL 60178-1934

PO Box 71892

ilrno2@netzero.net

Madison Hts, MI 48071

The Guide can also be downloaded or
printed from the ASCC website, free.

Treasurer:

Security Printers:

Dick Naven

William G. Kanowsky

PO Box 80830

Unit 103

Portland, OR 97280-1830

1100 Erie Ave

ascctreasurer@qwestoffice.net

Evansville, IN 47715

Slide Program:

Directors:

Larry Adams

Lyman Hensley (2018)

812 1/2 Story St.

Bob Hohertz (2018)

Hermann Ivester (2018)

M. S. Kazanjian (2018)

Chris Jones (2017)

Donald Woodworth (2017)

Dick Naven (2017)

Myron Ross (2017)

Coleman Leifer (Emeritus)

Lee E. Poleske (Emeritus)

Boone, IA 50036

Membership Interests

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Checks, general

5. Checks, Great Britian

21. Autographs

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Checks, USA

6. Checks, Canada

22. Railroads, Steamboats, Mining

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US Government Checks

7. Checks, World

23. Banking History

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Miscellaneous Fiscals:

8. Travelers Checks & Money Orders

24. Security Printing & Printers

Bank Drafts

9. Specimen Checks

25. Check Protectors & Cancel

Bills of Exchange

10. Ration Checks

Devices

Certificates of Deposit

11. Refund/Rebate Checks

26. Wells Fargo History

Promissory Notes

12. Other

30. Stock & Bond Certificates

Warrants

14. Counter & Modem Checks

31. Revenue Stamped Documents

Receipts

20. Vignettes

32. Emergency Scrip

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Tightwad Bank

By Gordon K. Rouze

I first learned of the Tightwad Bank in Tightwad, Missouri from my friend Charlie Bush. He had retired to St. Joseph,
Missouri after spending his later working years as an accountant in South America. Charlie, now deceased, had a great
sense of humor and a curiosity that knew no bounds. Hearing the name “Tightwad Bank” was a call to action for this
creative guy.

I knew Charlie as we shared a common interest in hobby printing and hung out together at the annual printers’ gatherings. It
was Charlie who had pointed out to the St. Joseph Gazette newspaper that their masthead, set in a heavy-faced Old English
type, was incorrectly using an “I” instead of a “J” in JOSEPH, and had been every day for seventy seven years. The paper
repeatedly scoffed at the notion of any error and wrote Charlie off as some kind of a nut case. He persisted and was finally
vindicated when a researcher from the New York Times agreed that the newspaper was, indeed, using the wrong letter. The
Times carried a story about the error in its December 10, 1980 edition.

The town of Tightwad, population 63, is located in southern Missouri, 87 miles southeast of Kansas City. The unusual
name is said to be derived from an incident involving a store owner who was accused of cheating a customer out of 50
cents. There has been a post office there since the early 1900s.

The bank, under a number of different names and ownerships, traces its linage back to 1900. The first use of the name
“Tightwad Bank” was by the Citizens State Bank of Windsor, Missouri, who opened a branch under this name in 1984.
These bankers hoped to capitalize on the area growth expected from a new dam and recreation area which never materialized
to the extent anticipated. Two robberies in the 1990s prompted the closing of the bank lobby with all transactions handled
through a drive-through window. In 2006, the bank was closed.

Two years later, in 2008, the enterprising owners of the Reading State Bank in Reading , Kansas realizing the pull and
marketing value of this unusual name resurrected the Tightwad Bank. With a new bank building and lots of free publicity

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they built the deposits to $ 20 million with more accounts than the number of people living in the town. People far and
wide wanted a checking account at this bank with the quirky name. Banking services competed with coffee mugs and T-
shirts with the bank logo. But apparently their success was too much of a good thing, as the bank was voluntarily closed
and liquidated in mid-2015. My inquiries into the cause of the closing met with a terse answer: “Regulations.” Whatever
that means.

As I mentioned, Charlie was a hobby printer. So, after he opened his account and received a batch of checks he used his
small table-top press to print along the top edge: “Tightwad Bank in Tightwad, Missouri for real Tightwads.” On the back
he printed a cut of a Scrooge-like character and the phrase: “Do you have to cash my check?” He wrote: “I have hopes that
a few good citizens and a governmental agency or two will tear up my checks, after crediting my account, of course. My
wife thinks I may have been bom in that town.” What a find it would be if one of Charlie’s doctored checks showed up.

I have been searching in vain for Tightwad Bank checks to accompany this article. If any reader has one in his or her
collection, and would share a picture of it I’ll see if our editor will publish it in a future issue.

Your Editor replies: I tend to publish almost anything - but there (seriously) was a time when an escort service wanted to
take out an advertisement in The Check Collector.... Sorry on that one.

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Patent Medicine - Made in Racine

by Tom Casper

Racine, nicknamed Belle City, located on the western shore of Lake Michigan, is Wisconsin’s fifth largest city. It is
centrally located between Chicago and Milwaukee. The city is the headquarters for a number of well-known manufacturing
companies such as S.C. Johnson & Son, J.I. Case, Modine, and Twin Disc. Some Racine defunct companies such as
Horlick’s, which invented malted milk, and Mitchell & Lewis, the maker of the Mitchell automobile (1903-1923) are
fondly remembered.

But does anybody remember Racine as a major manufacturer of patent medicine, and what exactly is a patent medicine?
Patent medicine was an over-the-counter medicine, heavily advertised, with numerous endorsements with the promise
to cure a multitude of diseases without any actual proof that it worked. In fact many of them didn’t. Some of these cures
contained opium or cocaine, legal at the time, and most contained alcohol, all of which caused addiction.

Dr. Clarendon E. Shoop came to Racine from Marshall, Michigan in 1883 and opened up a medical practice. About 1890
he began manufacturing his patent nostrums in a shop on Wisconsin Ave. The business grew quickly. In 1893 he built his
six story Shoop Building at 215 State St. and formed the Family Medicine Co. In the early 1900’s he employed up to 350
men producing 2,000 bottles of one “cure” in a single day. His main product was the Restorative Nerve Tonic. But the
company produced about a dozen other remedies including a Health Coffee Imitation. He became one of America’s largest
successful patent medicine manufacturers.

At first Shoop medicines were sold only door to door. He then hired an advertising man to create demand for his products in
drug stores. He started a staggering nationwide direct mail campaign sending out 400,000 booklets a day. The manufacturer
and sale of these cure-alls was greatly reduced in 1906 with the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act. It required the
ingredients to be labeled which reduced the fraudulent claims. The statute was revised in 1936 putting an end to these
bogus medicines. His business thrived until about 1910 when he changed to making cosmetics and Country Club Toilet
Products.

DH. 9II00P FAMILY MKPtOLNK COM FAN Y NEW JiulLDINU

The Shoop building remains today at the same location with his name prominently displayed over the curved entrance. By
1917 his health was failing. He moved to Hollywood, California and died there in 1924 at the age of 73. In remembrance
of him Racine has named a street and a park, which he donated, after him.

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L fiUM Ul JTUlJiU^

C. I. SHOOP* M. I).

Racine, Wis., / ^ 1900.

days sight pay to the order of the

Dollars

For oalue Receioed and Charge same to Account ot

Dr. Shoop Family Medicine Co

- - — PRES, and TREAS.

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Shown here is a 1900 time draft written and signed by Dr. Shoop. His bust appears at the top left. The heading, partially
blocked by a 2-cent revenue stamp, reads, “Dr. Shoop’s Restorative, The Great Nerve Tonic”. The draft for $3.83 was sent
to collect money from A. Kiefer Drug Company which should be paid within five days into Shoop’s account in the Fletcher
National Bank. Both Kiefer Co. & Fletcher Bank were in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Pullman Check

A check used by the Pullman Palace Car Company in 1899. The company's name was to be changed shortly after.

See imprinted parlor car tickets used by the Pullman Palace Car Company and the Pullman Company on pages 19 and 20
of this issue.

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The Fickle Finger of Fate

By Don Woodworth

I normally prefer to buy revenue stamped paper that bears some sort of interesting vignette. The Type RN-D1 check of the
Home Savings Bank from South Waverly, PA shown in Figure 1 is almost, but not quite, and exception to this rule. The
vignette on this check (Figure 2), if it can indeed be called one, is the “hand with pointing finger” often seen on old signs
or advertisements and used to call the reader’s attention to something special. In this case, the something special is the fact
the mailing address for the Home Savings Bank, situated in the town of South Waverly, PA, was located 1.02 miles north
in Waverly, NY where the bank received its mail. I had never before seen a check with a “pointing finger” so I could not
resist buying it.

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P. 0. WAVERjLY, N. </T

Figure 1. Type RN-D1 check issued by the Home Savings Bank of South Waverly, PA.

The location of the bank is somewhat a Tale of Two Cities. The Borough of South Waverly was incorporated on January
28, 1878. At the time, South Waverly had been an outgrowth of Waverly, NY in what was known as “Factoryville” due to
the existing grist and fulling mills along Cayuta Creek, a tributary to the Susquehanna River. The communities of Waverly
NY and South Waverly, PA have had close ties to each other ever since the communities were incorporated in each state.
For many years, South Waverly Borough received fire protection, mail service and city water from Waverly, NY. 1 In 1890,
census data recorded 1,288 persons living in the borough. 2 This, then, explains the mailing address different from that of
the bank and the role of the Fickle Finger of Fate.

A 0. WAVERLI, I. ¥.

Figure 2. Detail of the Fickle Finger of Fate pointing out that the mailing address of the Home Savings Bank of South
Waverly, PA was located slightly north in Waverly, NY.

South Waverly is a northern suburb of Sayre, PA, located less than a mile north of the city center. The center of the small
town of Waverly, NY is almost equidistant north of South Waverly. One municipality blends seamlessly into the other with
only a small stone marker in the sidewalk of the main street to indicate the boundary between Pennsylvania and New York.
Precious little could be discovered about the Home Savings Bank itself. From extant checks we know if was in business as
least as early as 1867. We know that it was in business at least as late as 1897, though likely in precarious financial health
at that time, due to the fact that one Mr. Benjamin Kuykendall was appointed as a receiver. 3 The downtown area of South
Waverly, PA was reported as being gutted by fire in 1916, so it is conceivable that the bank (if it was still in business) may
have physically disappeared at that time. 4

The New York Mercantile Journal Co. was a newspaper publishing and printing company located at 350 Pearl Street
and also at 1 and 2 Franklin Square in New York City. It was established in 1803. The “Mercantile Journal,” an 8 page
publication sized 37” x 52”, was printed on Thursdays. The subscription price was $5.00 per year. Its news was devoted to
commerce, finance, manufacturing and political economy (what we might now call “economics'.) It also contained jobbers

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quotations of all the markets and claimed to admit no advertisements from houses rating below 2-1-2 and B C. 5 I could
find no references to the terms 2-1-2 and B C but would assume that they may have been (in 1869) something akin to H.
V. and H. W. Poor’s “Manual of the Railroads of the United States,” established in 1868, fiscal health ratings. 6 In addition
to publishing the weekly Mercantile Journal, the company also printed a 32 page monthly called the True Citizen at $1.00/
year 7 and likely did other printing as well.

No information could be found for W. L. Pendleton, the maker of this check. I was, however, able to find a tidbit of
information noting that Charles E. Pendleton, the ex-cashier of the Home Savings Bank, boarded at 106 Pennsylvania Ave.
in Waverly Village, NY. 8 There must obviously have been a relationship between Charles and W. L. Pendleton.

Bibliography

1. South Waverly Borough
http://southwaverlyborough.org/home

2. South Waverly Borough

http://www.bradfordcountypa.org/Our-Towns/South-Waverly-Borough.asp

3. Cornell University History 1905

http://www.archive.org/stream/comelluniversi03willgoog/cornelluniversi03willgoog_djvu.txt

4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waverly, Pennsylvania

5. George P. Rowell and Co.’s American Newspaper Directory - 1869
http://archive.org/stream/geoprowellcosamel869newy/geoprowellcosamel869newy_djvu.txt

6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_%26_Poor%27s

7. American Newspaper Directory - 1879

http://www.archive.org/stream/geoprowellandcoOOunkngoog/geoprowellandcoOOunkngoog_djvu.txt

8. 1887-88 Directory - Waverly Village, NY
http://www.tioga.nygenweb.net/waverly3.htm

Another Pullman Check

Nn 861

•: THE PULLMAN COMPANY.

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'• : : .. : Ch ICAGO,_ ■ ' J ■ 1 r _ S

Payto the order of

! / 1 ch>

And charge

OLLARS,

SECRETA RV.

This one was used by the Pullman Company in 1900, after their name was changed to "modernize" it.

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A Favorite Check

by Les Winners

Among my favorites are checks that have vignettes of manufacturing plants or the equipment made by the particular
company. When I saw this check with its distinctive vignettes I knew it needed a new home. How often do you find a
check with a vignette of the French Legion of Honor?

A larger image of the plant vignette

An enlarged image of the Legion of Honor.

The government of France named Cyrus McCormick
an Officier de la Legion d’honneur in 1851.

Further historical information can be found at this link:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/chicago/peopleevents/p_mccormick.html

Editor's Note: Sometime in 1880, before the time of the check
shown above, a decoration was removed from the lower left corner.
Otherwise, the design remained the same. Why bother?

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Collecting Territorial Paper - Part 13

By Jim Adams

Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory have much interesting material available at reasonable prices. The state of
Oklahoma was not assembled from these two entities until 1907. In fact, the name of the state derives from two Choctaw
words meaning ’’red people,” which might raise some questions about it being less than politically correct if it had not been
suggested by a Choctaw Chief in the first place.

Indian Terrritory never did have territorial government. Congress designated the western portion of the area, plus the
Panhandle (No Man’s Land,) as Oklahoma Territory in 1889.

Map of area circa 1890, courtesy of Karl Musser, from https://commons.wikimedia. 0 rg/wiki/File:Okterritory.png#f 1 lehistory

Since Oklahoma Territory had territorial government, one can find county warrants such as this one for juror’s fees from
Arapahoe, in ”G” (Greer?) County.

Air,

-CC . BfL (2 j _ or hearer

- ___ ‘Dollars

0-^X^Jo

’ 1 /

oid ofany _ do- f - c %&4L - funds of t/w County in your funds.

Q . By order of the Board of County Commissioners.

--- DEPUTY. _ CHAIR A

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Issued July 2, 1894, it was presented but not paid "for want of funds" on July 5th. Apparently this was expected, as pre¬
printed provision was made for it on the left side of the back.

City Warrants are also available from Oklahoma Territory. This one was issued for "fire practice" by the city of El Reno
in 1896.

It was not paid for want of funds when presented either, to judge from notes on the back.

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Early "territorial M documents from Indian Territory are not lacking, either. Many of these are checks.

We have treated J.H. Sherburne several times in The Check Collector , but the last time was 2010, so here is a recap.
Sherburne was a storekeeper who became a trusted Indian trader, licensed as such by the U.S. government to trade ponies
and cattle in Indian Territory from 1876 to 1896. He had a home in Ponca Agency, where he and his wife raised five
children.

OFFICE OF

YVYYYYYYYYYVYYYT

United

States

Depositary/

to First NationalTjank

Arkansas City,Kas<

Hall & O'Donald LithCoTope

This check must have been printed before 1889, when Ponca Agency was part of Indian Territory.

JJcrnca

to First National Ban

Arkansas City,Kas,

And this one was printed in or after 1889, when Oklahoma Territory was created. Ponca Agency was inside the newly
established territory, so the dateline on Sherburne's checks needed to be changed. Note that the bank he used was located
in Arkansas City, Kansas, where he had a real estate and insurance business.

Besides various Sherburne checks, probably the most common Oklahoma Territory checks are those used by Ferdinand
Ritterbusch, Treasurer of Logan County. Ritterbusch was bom in Fishbeck, Germany in 1838, and came to America in
1867. He and his wife lived in Nebraska until 1893, when they moved to Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory. He died at the age
of 83, in 1922.

The checks that Ritterbusch used are drawn on various banks, including the Guthrie National Bank and The Bank of Indian
Territory, Guthrie. The one on the following page, used in 1897, was drawn on the former.

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Perhaps the most common of the Ferdinand Ritterbusch chacks are those that bear the picture of Ouray, Chief of the Utes.
Of all things for an Oklahoma Territory check, Ouray, Colorado is named for the person shown on it.

FERDINAND RITTERBUSCH,
Treasurei* Logaji County,

3608

COUNTY TREASURER.

The Bank of Indian Territory boasted that it had capital holdings of $50,000 in 1890.

To be continued

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RN Inventory - X5

by Bob Hohertz

To round out my survey of the one-cent imprinted documents of the Spanish American War tax era, this installment covers
the green imprints. These are found on a variety of parlor car tickets, plus unused telegrams, cablegrams and freight
receipts. The latter three uses are not difficult to obtain from the leading revenue dealers, and will be covered briefly, for
completeness.

POSTAL TELEGRAPH-CABLE COMPANY 1

« • | ALBEKT B. CHANDLER. President.

I ( J.O. STEVENS. Sec'y. _ WM.H. BAKER, V. P.&6.M.

• THE COMMERCIAL CABLE COMPANY.

T3 M

TELEGRAM

_ ^•§252*-'^

The Postal Telegraph-Cable Company transmits and delivers this message subject to the terms and conditions printed on the back of this bl ank.

Counter Numbi

Send the following message, without repeating, subject to the terms and conditions printed on the back hereof, which are hereby agreed to.

To.

igo

THE POSTAL COMPANY'S SYSTEM REACHES ALL IMPORTANT POINTS IN THE UNITED STATES AND BRITISH AMERICA, AND via COMMERCIAL CABLES, ALL THE WORLD.

Telegram forms are not known used,
which is not too surprising. Most or
all would have been returned to the
Postal Telegraph - Cable Company
and destroyed as likely to contain
private information. The messages
actually sent to the recipients would
not have contained an imprint since
the tax had already been paid.

The documents on this page are
shown at 64% size.

The previous comments relating
to telegrams would also apply to
cablegrams. No used copies are
known.

This is as good a place as any to
introduce the Scott Specialized
listing for X5.

10 green is listed used and
unused at modest prices,
followed by "Partial," used only.

Then comes "a. On parlor car
ticket," both used and unused.

Next, "b. On pullman ticket,"
unused only.

Finally, "On pullman ticket,
partial," used.

So where do these items, and
the express receipts on the next

POSTAL TELEGRAPH-CABLE COMPANlf "-wst- THE COMMERCIAL CABLE COMPANY.

ident. I |

•R, V. P.&G.M, I

ALBERT B. CHANDLER, President.
J. 0. STEVENS, Sec'y. WM, H. BAKER, \

JOHN W. MACKAY, President.

| ALBERT BECK, Sec'y. GEO. G, WARD, V.P.iG. M.

CABLEGRAM.

« w ki mm V* n ivl ■

The PusiaY Telegraph-Cable Company transmits and delivers this cablegram subject to the terms and conditions printed on the back of thiTblank.

Time

Send the follow my Cableyram. without repeating, subject to the terms and conditions printed on the back hereof, which are hereby agreed to.

. _ /

To

The sender will please read the conditions on back and sign name and address thereon for reference.

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page, fall? If under "10 green," there are no known used copies of any of these forms. If any were found, unless in a large
quantity, they would not command a modest price. Also, the following "Partial" does not make sense in relation to them,
but does when referencing Pullman tickets. But those have a separate listing. You can see why I warn anyone judging my
exhibit of this material to avoid using the Specialized as a reference.

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There is no logical reason that a group of used express receipts could not have survived, but none are currently known.
Some of the Illinois Central milk receipts were used as menus at the 1905 Annual Dinner of the Chicago Philatelic Society,
which featured filet of sole and tenderloin saute, followed by tutti frutti ice cream, roquefort and coffee, but I hardly think
this qualifies them for being listed as “used” in the Specialized.

R.nrA.r> the conditions op this receipt. <212-1*1.., •».>

AMERICAN

Value ashed and-
Marked-

SS COMPANY.

-given as.

Which this Company undertakes to forward to the nearest point to destination reached by it, subject to the following conditions,
and which conditions are agreed to by shipper or owner in accepting this receipt.

1. This Company is not to be held liable for any loss or damage, except as forwarders only,
nor for any loss, damage, or delay, by fire, by the dangers of navigation, by the act of God or of
the enemies of the Government, by the restraints of Government, mobs, riots, insurrections,
pirates, or from or by reason of any of the hazards or dangers incident to a state of war.

Nor shall this Company be liable for any defuult or negligence of any person, corporation
or association to whom the above described property shall or may be delivered by this Company,
for the performance of any act or duty in re:-pect thereto, at any place or point oft' the estab¬
lished routes or lines run by this Company ; and any such person, corporation or a-soclution, is
not to be regarded, deemed or taken to be the agent of this Company for any such purpose, but,
on the contrary, such person, corporation or association shall be deemed and taken to be the
agent of the person, corporation or association from whom this Company received the property
above described. It being understo'd that this Company relies upon the various Railroad and
Steamboat lines of the country for its means of forwarding property delivered to it to be for¬
warded, it is agreed that it shall not be liable for any losses or damages caused by the detention
of any train of cars or of any steamboat or other vehicle upon which said property shall be
placed fof transportation; nor by the neglect or refusal of any Railroad Company, Steamboat
or other transportation line to receive and forward the said property. Nor shall this Company
be liable for any losses or damages caused by detention of said property due to Customs
Regulations.

3. It is further agreed that this Company is not to be held liable or responsible for any
loss of, or damage to. said property or any part thereof, from any cause whatever, unless in
everv case the said loss or damage be proved to have occurred from the fraud or gross
negligence of said Company or its servants; nor in any event shall this Company be held

liable or responsible, nor shall any demand be made upon it beyond the sum of Fifty Dollars,
at which sum said property is hereby valued, unless the just and true value thereof is stated herein;
nor upon any property or thing unless properly packed and secured for transporta¬
tion; nor upon any fragile fabrics, or any fabrics consisting of, or contained in, glass.

4. If any sum of money besides the charges for transportation is to be collected from the
consignee on delivery of the above described property, and the same is not paid, or if in any
case the consignee cannot be found or refuses to receive such property, or for any other reason
it cannot be delivered, the shipper agrees that this Company may return said property to him
subject to the conditions of this receipt, and that he will pay all charges for transportation, and
that the liability of this Company for such property while in its possession for the purpose of
making such collection, shall be that of Warehousemen only.

5. In no event shall this Company be liable for any loss, damage or delay, unless the claim
therefor shall be presented to it in writing at this office within ninety days after date of
shipment, in a statement to which this receipt shall be annexed.

6. It is further agreed that any carrier or party liable on account of loss or damage to any
of the above described property, shall have the full benefit of any insurance that may have
been effected upon or on account of said property.

7 . And it is also understood that the stipulations contained herein shall extend and inure to
the benefit of each and every company or person to whom, through this Company, the above
described property may be Intrusted or delivered for transportation.

8. Deliveries at destination are only to be made within the delivery limits established at
such points at the time of shipment and prepayment in such cases shall only cover places within
such delivery limits.

For the Company,

.Agent.

The Liability of this Company is limited to $50, at which sum the property is hereby valued, unless the just and true value is stated in this Receipt, and
leases on its delivery of property at nearest point to destination it can carry same. Fragile fabrics and fabrics consisting of, or containeu in, glass,

•X owner’s risk. [Ovib ]

..Annual Dinner..
Chicago Philatelic Society
Chursday, Jan. 20,1005

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j Form 354.

Illinois Central Railroad Company.

Agent.

Roquefort

Fron here on we'll be looking at parlor car tickets. Even the
Pullman tickets in the Specialized listing are parlor car tickets,
so that is not a good way to separate them from those used by
other companies. And, as we shall see, it wouldn't be enough, for
pricing purposes, to divide them by Pullman and not-Pullman.

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Unused parlor car tickets are given an unrealistically low value in the catalog. The following two may well be unique,
though I always caution that we have no idea what resides in collections of railroadiana.

This Northern Pacific Chair Check was issued for a seat that
functioned rather like a modem recliner. During the day the
passenger would face a table and other passengers, but at night the
seat could be tilted backwards almost flat to allow the occupant to
sleep, rather like some first class seats in today's airliners.

The Hocking Valley ticket below is only known as this sample,
though surely at least one passanger must have kept a stub of
one. From the looks of it, this would have included much of the
imprint.

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Railway ticket was issued but not used. I know of two
others, all in the same situation. Since they were to be
retained only until taken up by the porter, tmly used
ones probably don't exist.

Either the Chicago and Northwestern partial below was
issued but not used, or the porter forgot to collect it,
the latter possibility being unlikely. It is the only copy
I know of, though I also have an entire ticket with a
yellow imprint, (see TCC 116.)

The odd shape of the C&N ticket stub is caused by a
simplex cutter which left a bump at the destination.
With the number of destinations listed on this stub,
the ticket agent must have had a rather strange
machine which required precise placement of the
ticket, or a drawer full of carefully labeled scissors.
Neither sounds very practical, and one can see why
the design wasn't common.

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General Passenger and Titficet At/ent.

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Used parlor car tickets, other than Pullman, range from rare to common. One catalog price does not fit all.

This is a partial of a Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway
Company parlor car ticket. Two or three unused tickets with orange
imprints are known, and at least one stub with an orange imprint.
These are anything but common.

I know of four Florida East Coast Railway stubs, two sets of seats
next to each other.

It is possible that items like these are what the Specialized means
by ’’Partial” under the main heading. If so, the price quoted is
ridiculously low. Unless someone finds a box of either of these
they will sell in the hundreds of dollars rather than the tens if the
buyer and seller are knowledgeable.

What ARE common are the buff paper Pere Marquette parlor car
tickets used in 1902.

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A box of these must have been salvaged from the railroad,
probably in 1908 when Henry Mudge wrote to various
railroads, asking them to send him anything they had left with
stamps or imprints. Virtually all of the copies I have seen have
the dates 1901-1902 or 1902-1903 at the right side, and most
of those were used in February to May of 1902.

Even the Pere Marquette tickets offer some rarities. These are
the ones printed on yellow paper.

The example below has 1900-1901 at right and was used in
November of 1900. This is early, since the railroad was not
founded until 1900.

I have one other Pere Marquette ticket on yellow paper, with
1901-1902 dates. It was used in July of 1901. I believe that all
of the tickets were printed on yellow paper before mid 1901,
and that there were almost none of these in the box sent to
Mudge. In fact, these two could have been held by the railroad
as examples that were no longer considered to be of use in 1908,
so thrown in with the more recent ones sent. Pure conjecture,
but those on yellow are rare, however they survived.

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The next listing is for unused Pullman tickets. Compared to unused Pullman tickets with orange or red imprints, those with
green imprits are quite rare, yet the catalog value is lower.

To complicate matters further, unused Pullman tickets with green imprints come as entires and partials which are missing
the upper part or parts of the ticket. I suspect that the catalog is not making this distinction, as most of the used Pullman
stubs with green imprints are smaller bits and pieces of three or four part forms. Even these are not so common as the
catalog price would indicate, though, admittedly, the market for them is rather restricted.

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This unused two-part Pullman ticket is the one pictured in A Handbook for United States Revenue Stamped Paper by
Einstein, Kingsley and DeKay. It is the only unused horizontal entire that I know of, though, again, several more could
exist somewhere.

DATE i
1 12 22

2 13 23

3 14 24

4 15 25

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No. 3

1700

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THE PULLMAN COMPANY

PASSENGER’S CHECK.

Good for one seat in Parlor Car between Stations indicated in the
direction and on date punched.

Conductor...

Car

AUDITOR’S CHECK.

It was printed for the Pullman Company, so intended for use after 1899. The on-board one below left was intended for use
by the Pullman Palace Car Company, so printed prior to 1900.1 do not know of any other examples like it, either.

The ticket at right was issued
but not used, probably in 1901
to judge from the wording on it
and placement of the imprint on
its face rather than on back.

This is another example that
could be unique. The others I
have seen or are in my collection
do not have the yellow section
at top still attached.

The ticket at right does not appear to have been used, but it is lacking
one or more sections at the top, so it’s what I woul call an unused partial.

From its wording and general style it was printed for use in 1900.

I know of another copy, also missing the upper section or sections, so I
suspect there were, and are, more of these somewhere.

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There are very few stubs from the on-board Pullman Palace Car
tickets with green imprints. The vast majority have yellow or
orange imprints.

This is the only one I’ve seen.

Partial Pullman tickets with green imprints are not particularly common. The large varieties are mainly from 1900-1901.

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The smaller, multi-part tickets with single origins and destinations
began in 1900, with the imprint placed on the front.

By 1902 the imprints had been moved to the back. Some of the multi-part ticket stubs
retain the auditor’s portion and some just the passenger’s check.

In general, these are not as common as similar multi-part ticket stubs with red imprints,
but red partials catalog over four times more than the green ones do. Someday I’ll go
back to making a try at organizing this information into a concise catalog scheme,
once I can figure out how to deal with used entires, used partials, and issued but
unused entires without creating an unusable mess. It ought to be possible.

back,
ached

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when
to these
To be

JERSEY

This three-part series on the one-cent Spanish American War imprints is a condensed
version of several chapters I’ve written for a book I’m working on with Ron Lesher.

If we can get the chapter on American Phototype written, it may appear within our
lifetimes. In the meantime, I hope some of my interest in this area has rubbed off on our readers.

Please, if anyone has an example different from the ones shown, please get in touch with me. I haven’t illustrated every
possible variation, only the major different types I am aware of.

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Pennsylvania Banks - 33 by Peter Robin

I request the help of all readers in adding information to these listings as well as, of course, the counties to come. I can be
reached by e-mail at peterrobin@verizon.net or by regular mail at Box 353, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004.

Bank Name

Stamp

Years

Printer

Colors

Vignette/User

Size in mm

Union County

Lewisburg N. B.
in Gothic letters

R15

1870/6-

None

Salmon on White

Ornamental stamp box

185 x 63 mm.

Same in standard letters

R15

1870/6-

Man

Blue on White

Ornamental stamp box

185 x 63 mm.

Same

R15

1870

WFM

Blue on White

Ornamental design

187 x70 mm.

Same

H3

1870

WFM

Blue on White

As above

190 x70 mm.

Same

R15

1870

WmN

Blue on White

Feafy ornamental design

183 x 70 mm.

Same

E4

1873

Man

Blue on White

Feafy ornamental design

Same

R135

1873

Man

Blue on White

Feafy ornamental design

180 x70 mm.

Same

D1

1875

WmM

Feafy ornamental design

Same

G1

1880

WmM

Feafy ornamental design

Same

R164/X71898

FRM

Black on White

Bank monogram

Same

R164

1900

StF

Black on Beige

Bank monogram

168 x 70 mm.

Union N. B. ofFewisburg

H3

1869

WFM

Red on White

Two cows & train

Same

B1

1870

WFM

Red on White

Two cows & train

Same

Kll

1875

WFM

Green on White

Ornamental design

177x771 mm.

Same

FlOa

1875

WFM

Green on White

Ornamental design

175 x 70 mm.

Same

R151

187—

None

Red-brown on White

Ornamental design

192 x 66 mm.

Same

G1

1877

WFM

Red on White

Two cows & train

186 x 65 mm.

Same

R152

1879

CMC

Black on White

None

154 x 68 mm.

Same

R152

1879

CPF

Gray-blue on White

Small ornamental design

196 x 70 mm.

Same

R152

1881

CMC

Black on Blue

PENN S YFVANIA

193 x 77 mm.

Same

X7

1900

None

Black on White

None

175 x 73 mm.

Farmers Bank of Mifflinburg

R164

1901

None

Black on White

172 x 64 mm.

Same

R164

1901

WFM

Black on White

172 x 64 mm.

Mifflinburg Bank

D1

1877

WmM

Black on White

None

190 x 65 mm.

Same

G1

1882

WmM

Black on White

None

185 v 67 mm.

Same

None

1895

FRM

Black on Gray

Horace P. Glover

198 x70 mm.

Same R155orR164

1898

WmM

Black on White None

First N. B. of Mifflinburg

R151

1874

Har

Red-brown on Rose

Wm. Young, President

175 x 70 mm.

Same

G1

1877

WmM

Red-brown on Violet

J.W. Sands / Wm. Young

178 x70 mm.

Milton N. B. of Milton

None

1871

FFN

Violet on White

Ornamental design

207 x 75 mm.

N. B. of Union City

R164

1898

Her

Black on Cream

None

165 x 75 mm.

To be continued

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Announcements

I received two emails and two letters in response to my questions and request for suggestions in the previous issue of TCC.
Thanks to Joe Adamski, Fred & Eunice Bolhuis, Lee Poleske, and Gordon Rouze for responding. All four were willing to
accept a $10 increase in annual dues to cover the cost of continuing to produce hard copies of TCC, $5, and to print it in
color, $5.

Other suggestions were: (1) increase regular dues to $30 and online only to $20; (2) “I would also like an electronic version
for the extra $10 and could live with online only: (3) consider different levels of membership, for example basic at $15,
sponser at $25, and benefactor at $50; and, from David Shafer a while back, going to three issues per year may be the way
to go.

Another possibility is that we could reduce the number of pages in TCC by four, to twenty plus the mailing cover, to offset
the cost of printing in color. While we do not have the figures yet, this move would make the increase for color less than
$5, hopefully significantly less. The Editor favors this move, to avoid the need for writing so much of the content in some
issues.

I appreciate the thoughtful responses and suggestions, all of which deserve serious consideration. However, since we have

some time before we have to decide whether any change should be made for next year, I would really like to have input

from more members. If you haven’t already responded please take a few minutes to put

your thoughts in an email or letter, even if it is just to say you agree with or oppose any

particular action. Your responses could be very important to the future of the society. U'l

Patent Medicine - Chicago Version

by Bob Hohertz

Keeping with the various themes of patent medicines and Chicago, here is another purveyor of nostrums likely to do more
harm than good.

H.E. Bucklen numbered Electric Bitters and Dr. King’s New Discovery among his wares. The latter was guaranteed to cure
consumption. Consisting of a mixture of morphine and chloroform, it was more likely to hasten death than effect a cure.
Electric Bitters worked miracles on the stomach, liver and kidneys. At best, it was useless.

Bucklen purchased the rights to most of these tonics from one Dr. Z.L. King of Elkhart, Indiana, and moved the business
to Chicago in the late 1870's. He was doing so well by 1893 that his remedies were featured at some places within the
grounds of the World Columbian Exposition, and Bucklen produced a book featuring the marvels of the fair, including, of
course, Dr. King’s New Discovery.

In 1905 New Discovery was held up as one of the evils of unregulated patent medicine in one of a series of articles written
for Colliers Magazine.

https ://chicagology. com/goldenage/goldenage 104/

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Member Exchange

Collector seeks Oklahoma Territory & Indian Territory checks. Top prices paid. Bob Fritz, P.O. Box 1548, Sun
City, AZ 85372-1548.

New member is interested in pre-1950 Wisconsin checks. Will purchase or trade for any needed. Tom Casper,
S95W13453 St. Andrews Dr., Muskego, WI 53150. E-mail tcasper57@hotmail.com.

Charter member would like to obtain a check from the ’’Washington National Bank” or the Telegraphers National
Bank", both of Saint Louis, MO. Will purchase or trade. Ron Horstman, 5010 Timber Lane, Gerald, MO 63037.

Wanted: Checks from dealers in Indian relics or fossils - or signed by archaeologists or paleontologists. Or other
related paper. Write: Stan Raugh, 4217 8th Avenue, Temple, PA 19570-1805.

Wanted: "Manuscript” aka completely handwritten checks. All states and dates (generally pre-1900. Sheldon
Rabin, 1820 Sheep Ranch Loop, Chula Vista, CA, 91913-1659, sheldonrabin@yahoo.com.

Dealer wants checks signed by celebrities. No quantity too large. Myron Ross, Heroes & Legends, 18034 Ventura
Blvd., Encino, CA 91316

Collector seeks checks autographed by famous people. Top prices paid. Michael Reynard, 1301 20th Street #260,
Santa Monica, CA 90404. reynard@ucla.edu

Exchange postings will be taken from ASCC members who are collectors only. Postings of 20 words or less are free; please
remit $3 each issue for postings of 21 to fifty words. Name and address do not count toward the 20 words.

Neither the Editor nor the ASCC can be responsible for compliance with any promises made in postings, or in response to
them. Be very clear as to the value you place on your material when discussing a trade. Fairness and common courtesy
are to be expected, but common sense must rule.

Previous Total 131

New Members 1

Reinstatements 0

Resignations 0

Deaths 0

Undeliverable 0

Dropped - Not Paid 0

Current Total 132

Secretary’s Report

Lyman Hensley
New Members

1933 James Plumlee 1,2,4,22,30
602 N W Jefferson St
Bentonville, AR 72712

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MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION

The undersigned hereby applies for membership in the American Society of Check Collectors, Inc., and agrees to comply
with its Charter and By-Laws.

Enclosed with this application is $15 for dues ($20 for U.S. mailing of The Check Collector by First Class Mail, $20 for
Canada, $25 for other foreign countries,) OR electronic membership only, any country, $13 (no magazine will be sent - can
be read online or downloaded.) U.S. funds only. Please make remittance payable to: The American Society of Check
Collectors, Inc. OR pay by PayPal on the ASCC website: www.ascheckcollectors.org.

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Region or States of Interest:

3. U.S. Government Checks

4. Miscellaneous Fiscal Documents

Bank Drafts

Bills of Exchange

Certificates of Deposit

Promissory Notes

Receipts

Warrants

5. Checks, Great Britain

6. Checks, Canada

7. Checks, World

Region or Countries of Interest:

8. Travelers Checks and Money Orders

9. Specimen Checks

10. Ration Checks

11. Refund/Rebate Checks

12. Other: _

14. Counter and Modem Checks

20. Vignettes

21. Autographs

22. Railroads, Steamboats, Mining

23. Banking History

24. Security Printers and Printing

25. Check Protectors and Cancel Devices

26. Wells Fargo History

30. Stocks and Bonds

31. Revenue Stamped Documents

32. Emergency Scrip